Martin Parr

Chris Kraus Urban Decay

visuels:
Nick Taylor

The dissolution
of art capitals +
creative refuge

Liz Johnson Artur

par Harriet Shepherd

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Windrush Generation, SLEEK
talks to Liz Johnson Artur about the people at the heart of her
photographs, and how Britain’s black diasporic communities have
shaped London

Prisca Vera Franchetti

par Harriet Shepherd

Born in Italy and based in New York, 28-year-old designer
Prisca Vera Franchetti is redefining elegance for the millennial era

Cyril Lancelin

par Kathryn O’Regan

Cyril Lancelin of architecture studio town.and.concrete
creates complex, maze-like installations and experimental
buildings across the world

Glen Martens

par Ann Binlot

The boy from Bruges

How Istanbul’s Artists defied the government

par Amandas Ong

Ahead of September’s Contemporary Istanbul art fair, Amandas Ong
visits Turkey’s biggest city to speak to its dissidents, performers and
curators, discovering a scene that’s far more complex than the
common refrain ‘political art’ would suggest

Richie Shazam & Garrett Nelson

par Penny Rafferty

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Stoya

par Laia Garcia
· visuels:
Katarina Šoškić

Last year, 28.5 billion people accessed PornHub, the largest
pornography website on the Internet. Despite its popularity,
however, the porn industry remains geared toward the gratification
of heterosexual male desire. Enter Stoya, an unconventional adult
actor whose new website ZeroSpaces is combining porn and sex
work activism. Here, she speaks to Laia Garcia about her presence
in the business.

Martin Parr

par Martin Parr

Martin Parr
photographs the
Serpentine Gallery
director Hans Ulrich
Obrist for SLEEK,
while our Editor in
Chief Grace Banks
talks to him about
Brexit, artists in
residence and the
power of Instagram

What does Europe mean to you ?

par Kathryn O’Regan

Next spring, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union. But
what does this move mean for the lives of European citizens working in
the arts? SLEEK asks five artists and writers what Europe has meant to
their creative practice, and what British citizens can do after Brexit.

Elmgreen & Dragset

par Emily McDermott

After becoming art
superstars by tackling
subjects drawn from
personal and political
struggles, Berlin-based
Scandinavian duo Elmgreen
& Dragset are now skewering religious taboos of gender and
power through their forthcoming shows in Paris and London

The Art of Making an Exit

par Ben Eastham
· visuels:
Max Knicker

As the UK’s attempts to leave the
European Union are hampered
by material realities and the
preposterous fantasies of
Brexit ideologues, Ben Eastham
contemplates how identities –
national, fictitious or otherwise
– are constructed through
combinations of similarities and
differences

Call on me

visuels:
Sacha Heintze

Paco Rabanne’s new perfume 1 Million Lucky is here – accompanied
by sister scent Lady Million Lucky. Inspired by the bling of the bottles,
we shot them with Rabanne’s classic metal dress

Inner space

par Bex Day

From here, you can see forever: Louis Vuitton’s new season, seen
against the grandeur of Berlin’s extra-terrestrial high-modernist
masterpiece, the House of World Cultures

Through a glass darkly

visuels:
Clara Nebeling

Chanel Beauty’s radical new mascara features the first ever
3D-printed brush. Here, we refract and reframe the high-tech
makeup via pure, clear water